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...Books: Khmer Rouge Memoir
...atrocities of the Third Reich and the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in World War II have been extensively archived in survivors' accounts, scholarly histories and documentary films. Yet the gruesome orgy of self-vivisection carried out in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978 left behind far fewer records. History in Cambodia remains intertwined with legend, as it has since the classical era of Angkor, and the regime's reign of terror was hideously efficient, leaving very few survivors to give witness to the inner workings of the machinery of death...
...Gate, the memoirs of Fran?ois Bizot, a French scholar of Cambodian Buddhism who plausibly claims to be the only Westerner released from a Khmer Rouge prison?a jungle hellhole called Anlong Veng?now delivers a cruel, irrefutable indictment. The book is at once a major historical document, informed by a thoughtful analysis of the human response to suffering and death, and an exhilarating war narrative...
...suspenseful pacing and his ability to penetrate the souls of the players in his drama place the book in the great tradition of moralistic French thrillers. The scene where the author, just released from prison, emerges from the jungle on foot to deliver a secret communiqu? from the Khmer Rouge to the French charg? d'affaires is straight out of The Count of Monte Cristo...
...museums. Bangkok's thousands of night-life venues are high on the list of attractions, but fewer visitors feel an obligation to view the antiquities at the national museums in Bangkok or Chiang Mai. This is due in part to the upstaging of Thai civilization by the Khmer; for many tourists to Southeast Asia, Cambodia with its temples at Angkor is the cultural must...